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The Trilogy Thats Gripped the World...
Tuesday 3rd July 2012 | Osh
Since i read and reviewed 50 Shades of Grey, the first in the E.L James trilogy a couple of months ago, the female population (according to Facebook and Twitter), has been hopping one after another onto the 50 Shades bandwagon.
Having recently finished the trilogy i’m finding it difficult to pinpoint the exact reasons behind its record breaking sales and all round hype.
The story, as you probably know follows the lives of uber wealthy businessman Christian Grey and aspiring publisher Anastacia Steele. They meet when Ana is conveniently asked to interview Christian for the university newspaper, from here on the inevitable transpires.
Christian is a controlling and domineering character with a no nonsense attitude towards life (but its ok because he owns a helicopter) and Ana, the seemingly timid, straight laced girl next door struggles throughout the three books to reign Christian in (pardon the pun) and establish a ‘normal’ relationship.
I suppose at this point it would be fitting to address the white elephant and talk about the fact that Christian Grey CEO of Grey Enterprises is infact a sadist, his annoyingly mysterious past and BDSM tendencies give way to the bulk of the story line. Christians social and sexual incapabilities regarding the practice of anything normal or ‘vanilla’ as its repeatedly stated in the books, and Ana’s efforts to ‘cope’ with his behaviour which in my opinion should be described as nothing but odd, pave the way for this so called ‘page turner’.
How a man with the rationalising capabilities of a five year old can successfully run a multi billion dollar organisation is slightly far fetched along with the fact that 21 year old student, Ana has never really used a laptop or mobile phone.
The only thing that sets this book aside from your average summer deckchair read are its raunchy sex scenes, which by the middle of the second book i found myself trying to miss out. There’s only so many times i can read the description of a zip being pulled down or a nipple tugged on by a hungry pair of teeth. T
Feeling the need to refrain from bursting everyone’s bubble i will say that regardless of its Audi R8 driving, penthouse owning and kidnapping cliches it is a moderately enjoyable trilogy.
Hollie Dent
